While believed to be the case long ago, EA Sports President confirmed to GameSpot that the company has no new plans for a NASCAR title.
“There are no plans right now for NASCAR from EA,” Moore said. “We had a great relationship over the years that I thoroughly enjoyed when I first got here. Unfortunately…we had to make some tough trade-offs. We’ve had to redeploy some of those folks. A number of the NASCAR team has moved over now to EA Sports MMA, which will be shipping next year. [We're] still a huge fan of NASCAR, but no plans right now to develop any further games for NASCAR from EA Sports.”
EA Sports last produced the racing sim NASCAR 09 in 2008 and their last NASCAR-based title was the Wii title NASCAR Kart Racing, which came out in February of 2009.
Those looking to play NASCAR can look forward to the upcoming PlayStation 3 title Gran Turismo 5, which is tentatively scheduled for late this year and will include licensed NASCAR action in some form. Details are sketchy on that front.
